100 Seeds Atlantic: a non-profit organization created to foster youth entrepreneurship. Purchase a ticket for $100 and you will have the chance to win $10,000 for your business at a pitch competition located in Atlantic Canada.

Innovacorp: participate in the Spark Innovation Challenge for a chance to win up to $50,000 as well as guidance from experienced professionals. Focused on early stage technology companies in Nova Scotia.

Canada’s Business Model Competition: Participants are rewarded for being able to break down their idea, testing their assumptions with customers, applying Customer Development/ Lean Startup principles, and learning to change until they have created a customer-validated business model. This competition is the national qualifier for the International Business Model Competition.